>> this large boot message issue also slows your boot significantly if you have a>> fast box that has a serial console, it takes a long time to dump all that info>> out the serial port.>> Don't blame the kernel that serial is slow.

the complaint wasn't that the serial was slow, It was a comment on the amount of data being displayed during a boot (which turned out to be in large part that I had a verbose config option turned on)

David Lang

-- There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. -- C.A.R. Hoare